No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
I haven't had the egomaniac star yet in any of my films. It's always been a pleasure.
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
I'm an early 1990's baby, so I had the pleasure of going through a lot of eras in music.
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
I like to watch MTV for escapist pleasure, but when I saw Snooki, I saw my twin. I couldn't lose myself in the show anymore because there I was.
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
It's with pleasure that I'm putting film-making aside. I never enjoyed making films. I didn't like the whole film world - an invented, unreal world whose values are completely different to those I'm used to.
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
The guilty pleasure I miss most when I'm out slogging on the campaign trail is the chance to sprawl on the chaise and watch a vacuously spunky and generically sassy chick flick.
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
I gallop and jump and ride young horses with intense pleasure.
